Genius Archer’s Streaming - Chapter 982

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The Genius Archer’s Streaming Season 4 Episode 113
36. The Agricultural Cooperative vs The Knights (4)
“Sigh. Who exactly is this organization that’s opposing Almond?”
Jello and Chocosong were walking through the middle of Tattered Village together.
“That’s what I’m wondering too… Hong-cha wouldn’t lie about this….”
They were recalling what they’d heard when they visited Hong-cha’s house for door-to-door sales.
「There must be people who don’t want to join Almond’s Knights.」
People who didn’t want to join Almond’s Knights… That would likely be the faction opposing Almond.
But from Jello’s perspective, having spent all that time outside the village just mining ore, there was no way to figure out such a power structure.
-&*#*(@
-Check the server chat
-I don’t know either
-#*(##@
Something was being filtered in the chat window.
‘So there is something.’
The fact that something was being filtered meant there was a high probability that the kind of organization Hong-cha mentioned existed within Cheese Village.
“Even looking at the full chat… I still can’t quite figure it out?”
“Me neither….”
The Agricultural Cooperative and Almond had clashed behind the scenes, but they’d never actually confronted each other directly, so it was difficult to grasp the situation from chat alone.
“Ugh.”
Jello sighed and continued walking through the tattered streets.
Chocosong, noticing Jello’s troubled mind, suddenly started bringing up various topics.
“By the way, Jello. I watched you and Pickle play ‘Northland’ before?”
Northland.
A survival game where you endure the cold winter of the frozen north.
In some ways it’s similar to Survival Craft in concept, but the actual gameplay was completely different.
Chocosong was simply throwing out this topic because she had nothing else to say.
“I was literally dying laughing watching it. That was so fun.”
-At this rate, why don’t you two just go on a date haha
-If Jello is just happier walking with Chocosong, that’s a big plus~
Choco Songi is so sweet ㅠ
Color returned to Jello’s face.
“Oh, do you play Northland? Would you want to do a collab stream with us?”
“Huh? Oh, no… I’ve never played it before….”
Hahahahahaha
-Whoa
-Oh….
Hahahahahahaha
-So Jello crosses the line after all…
-If you collab with them, who’s gonna manage your image!
-Right away, proposing a collaboration broadcast lol
“Ah… Yes….”
Jello felt embarrassed and continued walking in silence.
-I can’t watch this
-Sol’s situation is rough
ㅠㅠ (crying/sad face emoticon)
-Jello…
-(A) stoic young man.
It was then, as they walked side by side, unsure of what to do.
Suddenly, a commotion erupted.
For Jello, it was like a savior’s event.
“The Gisadan-jang is arriving!”
Gisadan-jang?
A word that resonates.
“Chocosong, when you say Gisadan-jang… isn’t that Almond?”
That’s right.
The cause of the iron ore oversupply.
The Knights.
Their leader was coming.
“Yes. Hong-cha Older Sister definitely said she’d give us something if we joined the Knights, and she advertised it in the chat too!”
The two nodded and quickly ran toward the source of the sound, the agricultural product sales center.
Rustle.
And hiding themselves adequately in the bushes, they observed them.
Color returns to Jello’s face.
“This conflict is no joke, is it?”
It was crystal clear who was in conflict with Almond.
“How dare you! How dare these serf thugs insult the Knights!”
“What, what? Serfs? You little lackey!”
Goguma—now called Gobong for some reason, despite having advertised the Knights—was clearly one of Almond’s associates.
“Hong-cha. How could you do this to people? Huh?”
Doughnutz, who said this to Hong-cha, appeared to be the leader of another faction.
“The culprit is you! Almondil!!”
The middle-aged detective and Ppulranem, who were streamers of a certain age, also seemed to be on Doughnutz’s side.
Chocosong looked back and forth with wide eyes and spoke.
“If we count by numbers, the opposing faction has far more people right now, doesn’t it?”
“That’s true.”
“Then….”
Their eyes meet.
Chuckle.
“If we sell well, we could sell all of this, couldn’t we?”
Chocosong was purely delighted because she thought the Agricultural Cooperative would buy her iron ore.
Jello, however, was different.
“You need to feel the difference in power here.”
“Pardon?”
“If the fighting intensifies here and you two clash once, won’t you both realize, ‘Oh, we need iron’? That’s the point, isn’t it?”
“…!”
That was true.
When you thought about it, he was an arms dealer.
He could only survive if there was war.
The two largest factions in Cheese Village.
The Knights and the Agricultural Cooperative.
They had to go to war.
But there was a problem.
“But Doughnutz.”
The leader of the Knights didn’t even recognize the leader of the other side.
“It was the Agricultural Cooperative?”
-?
-??
-What’s going on
-Almond doesn’t know?
-A conflict the leader doesn’t know about lol
-What is this
Jello and Chocosong, who had been happily imagining themselves sitting on a cushion of money from the two fighting, stared at Almond with blank expressions.
“What is this.”
They were confused about what to do.

* * *
“It was the Agricultural Cooperative?”
There was a hint of betrayal in Almond’s question.
‘So Doughnutz was from the Agricultural Cooperative.’
I had arbitrarily considered him my benefactor, never imagining he could be the leader of the Agricultural Cooperative.
Of course, my way of thinking bewildered not just the Agricultural Cooperative but everyone else—no one could relate to it.
Even my closest associates, Bongbong and the others, couldn’t follow my logic.
No matter how indifferent I was to worldly affairs, they never expected I wouldn’t know Doughnutz was the Agricultural Cooperative’s leader.
‘What is this? A strategy?’
‘Is this some kind of digital dementia or something?’
Danbong and Gobong each formulated their own hypotheses while waiting for the enemies’ reaction.
“What… what did you say? You didn’t know I was from the Agricultural Cooperative!?”
Doughnutz let out an exasperated shout.
“You never told me.”
hahahahahaha
lol
-I didn’t know either since I only watch sporadically?
Hahaha, that’s hilarious!
-Did he really never mention it?
Hahaha that’s so funny haha
In fact, Doughnutz had mentioned the Agricultural Cooperative to me exactly once.
「Don’t sell it today. Store it in our warehouse instead. It’s for communal use by the Agricultural Cooperative, so the price is…」
That was when I had come to sell potatoes whose prices had crashed, and he was about to propose I join the Agricultural Cooperative.
But I had brought corn instead of potatoes, and naturally, I let his words go in one ear and out the other.
「But I’ll just sell it.」
I hadn’t properly heard what he said about the Agricultural Cooperative.
I was dying to sell the corn whose prices had risen—how could talk of warehouses and such have reached my ears?
Murmurs began to ripple through the surroundings.
“What is this? Almond doesn’t even know the Agricultural Cooperative well?”
“The Agricultural Cooperative was talking like they got completely played by Almond.”
The murmurs from around me grew louder.
Other Streamers gathered at the agricultural products sales center.
Just villagers—neither Agricultural Cooperative nor Knights.
“Wait, Almond didn’t even care about the Agricultural Cooperative. Did they just shadow box among themselves?”
“The potato illusion wasn’t Almond’s intention?”
“Weren’t they talking about the potato illusion like it was some terribly malicious scheme?”
Surprisingly, my words just now had considerable impact.
In a favorable way for the Knights.
‘This can’t be.’
‘This actually works?’
Bongbong and his followers were flustered, but they maintained their composure without letting it show.
The villagers naturally assumed things were going well for them without any prompting.
“This is ridiculous. They tripped over their own feet and now they’re blaming others.”
“Using external enemies to strengthen internal unity… is that what this is?”
“Except the external enemy didn’t even know they existed.”
Though this was a slight exaggeration, from my perspective it was the truth.
I knew the Agricultural Cooperative existed as a faction, but I had no idea they were deliberately checking my moves.
I simply mistook planting potatoes for something else, the Cooperative collapsed, and when I sold my fields to avoid monsters, Hong-cha joined after her downfall.
The Three Leaders of the Agricultural Cooperative, having grasped the full picture of events, muttered in bewilderment.
“…That’s… how it was?”
“They didn’t even know we existed to this degree.”
“Damn it.”
But is a detective still a detective?
“B-but! Still!”
The Middle-aged Detective brought up the case that still remained unresolved.
“The fact that you Bone-slayed Hong-cha is still valid! Almondil!!!”
Hahahahaha
-Till the end lol
It’s so ugly, I’m crying.
-Public opinion is over
-This again?
Ppulranem shouted here.
“You sold your fields so monsters would go to Hong-cha’s land! You deceived everyone by pretending you saved her! And now you’re using her as your Bone! Is this something humans do!? You’re the ones who ruined the fields! Hong-cha thinks you saved her!”
As public opinion tends to be.
The villagers were swayed once more by Ppulranem’s words.
Murmur, murmur.
“Hong-cha was set up?”
“What do we do…”
“Wow, the Bone Knights are truly vicious…”
“And you call yourselves Knights!”
“Booooo!”
Suddenly, public opinion toward the Knights reached its worst.
-Hahaha what is this ㅋㅋㅋ
-The villagers are good actors
Isn’t it just that you want to trash talk anyone you feel like? lol
-Bone-slaying is pretty intense though
Everyone in the village was staring at Hong-cha.
The Three Leaders of the Agricultural Cooperative were also hoping she would drive the final wedge.
“Hong-cha. Tell us. Will you really stay with the Knights knowing this!?”
Sigh.
Hong-cha exhaled a long sigh.
She turned her gaze toward Almond and Bongbong.
“Do you have nothing to say about this…?”
She asked even though she already knew what they had done.
She was simply curious about what kind of heart they had when they deceived her.
“….”
Everyone fell silent.
‘Damn it.’
‘Sigh.’
Bongbong could only stare up at the sky.
Almond also thought this was Hong-cha’s decision to make.
Feeling somewhat sorry, he could only say this much.
“Even if you leave, take Fertile Land and Iron Armor with you.”
“…!”
In truth, Fertile Land couldn’t be taken anyway, and Iron Armor was nothing compared to Almond’s wealth, but that was a significant part of it.
‘To… that extent?’
Hong-cha’s eyes wavered. She bit her lip as if trying to steel her resolve further.
T_T
-Wow
-Truly magnanimous
lol
-Awesome
-This is real cooperation
Sigh.
Hong-cha turned around to face the Agricultural Cooperative.
And she spoke.
“I’m going to stay with the Knights.”
That would be her home.
“Y-you’re serious? After what happened to you? Even after drinking the red potion!!”
Ppulranem objected as if in disbelief.
The villagers gathered nearby were also shocked and began chattering.
“Wow. Really?”
“Isn’t this Stockholm syndrome or something like that?”
“Incredible….”
Hong-cha let out a bitter laugh at their words.
“What? These guys sold the field and monsters came after me? I already knew all of it.”
“…?”
“I also knew they were just pretending to help me.”
At these words, the Knights were far more shocked than the Agricultural Cooperative.
‘Insane.’
‘What?’
‘Are you serious?’
“I’m not an idiot, you know? At first, I only made a fake contract to protect the fields and was thinking of becoming a spy for the Agricultural Cooperative.”
“That, that’s….”
Greentea was the most shocked here.
She hadn’t betrayed them after all!
“But you all thought I’d betrayed you? Even though I never made contact once.”
-Wow wow wow
-No way
-Seriously?
-Plot twist on top of plot twist lol
-Damn
“Even though the beginning was wrong, these people were sincere with me. They even gave me an iron set, and they even gave me fertile soil!!”
“!”
The venue stirred with commotion.
They gave her fertile soil?
“Insane. The Knights….”
“So the answer is changing jobs?”
“The salary negotiation went crazy.”
“They’re being sincere for real.”
“If they gave fertile soil, Hongsong should do it.”
With the mention of receiving fertile soil, public opinion completely shifted to the Knights’ side.
Regardless of how the process unfolded, the ending was followed by perfect compensation.
“So I’m going to stay with the Knights.”
Hongsong declared once more that she would remain with the Knights.
The controversy seemed to end here.
“Wooooow!”
“Hongsong is amazing!”
“Knights fighting!”
-???lol lol lol
-What kind of cheering is thislol lol
-What’s thislol lol lol
-The villagers are so funny lol lol
Cheers erupted from the villagers.
Hongsong’s joining the Knights seemed to be completely solidified.
Of course….
‘They gave it by mistake.’
‘Good thing she doesn’t know about that.’
‘Phew, my position is secured….’
She still didn’t know all the truth.
She still couldn’t even imagine it. That the Fertile Soil was nothing more than a false gift that even she had been forced to give by pure coincidence.
What are you gonna do about the black tea lol
A trick within a trick within a trick lol
Hahahahaha this isn’t the end, Hong Cha…hahahaha
You can never escape the Matrix ㅠㅠ ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ
I’m dying laughing ㅋㅋㅋㅋ
But what did it matter if it was false?
“Woooooooow!”
“Hongsong-i! That’s amazing!”
The Bongbongs were spreading their arms wide in delight like this.

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